Chilean Flicker / Colaptes pitius
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Chilean Flicker
SCI Name:
Protonym: Picus Pitius SaggioStoriaNat.Chile p.343
Taxonomy: Piciformes / Picidae / Colaptes
Taxonomy Code: chifli1
Type Locality: Chile.
Author: Molina
Publish Year: 1782
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
COLAPTES
(Picidae; Ϯ Yellow-shafted Flicker C. auratus) Gr. κολαπτης kolaptēs chiseller < κολαπτω kolaptō to chisel, to peck, to strike; "The former group, or the Linnean Pici, it may be again observed, include some species where the bill loses the straight and angulated form, and becomes curved and compressed. These birds, of which the Picus auratus of Linnæus is the representative §, exhibit in this particular an evident approximation to the true Creepers ... § This group forms the genus Colaptes of Mr. Swainson." (Vigors 1825); "Colaptes Vigors, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 14, pt. 3, 1826, p. 457, note. Type, by original designation, Cuculus auratus Linné." (Peters, 1948, VI, p. 100).
Synon. Chrysopicus, Chrysoptilus, Craugus, Geopicos, Malherbipicus, Nesoceleus, Pediopipo, Pituipicus, Soroplex, Theiopicus, Tridactylocolaptes.
pitiguus / pitius
Araucano onomatopoeic name Pitíu (also Pitigüe or Pütriu) for the Chilean Flicker (Colaptes).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
